PFC Chester Gale Jordan, Arlington, TX on www.VirtualWall.org The Virtual Wall® Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Chester Gale Jordan

Private First Class
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INFANTRY, 25TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Arlington, Texas
April 28, 1944 to May 03, 1967
CHESTER G JORDAN is on the Wall at Panel 19E, Line 27

Chester G Jordan

To Uncle Chester

I thank you for giving your life for me - you are my hero!
I love you and miss you dearly!
Will see you in heaven!

My love, Jana Jordan "Tsana"

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Chester Gale Jordan also is remembered by the men of the
5th Infantry - the Bobcats

On 03 May 1967 B Company, 1st Bn, 5th Infantry lost four men in the Ho Bo Woods about 7 Kilometers South-Southeast of Ben Suc when their armored personnel carrier was hit by recoilless rife fire:

SP4 James Herbert Flickinger, Burbank, California;
PFC Chester Gale Jordan, Arlington, Texas (Bronze Star "V");
SP4 Glendell Morgan, Los Angeles, California; and
SP4 Lee Henderson Russ, Oakland, California.
A fifth member of the Company, SP4 Randall Arbogast of Valley Head, West Virginia, was wounded by a white phosphorous grenade and died at Brook Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas on 31 May 1967.

PFC Chester Gale Jordan was survived by his wife, Darlene Bailey Jordan Townsend, Arlington, Texas; mother Hazel Lucinda Jordan (1916-1997); father Jesse Willard Jordan (1915-1968); and at least one older brother Preston J. Jordan.
Chester and his parents are buried in Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas.

Chester G Jordan

- - The Virtual Wall, July 6, 2018

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